Patents by Inventor Colin Neal Murphy

Colin Neal Murphy has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Multi-terminal electromechanical nanocsopic switching device with control and release electrodes
    Patent number: 8063455
    Abstract: A multi-terminal electromechanical nanoscopic switching device which may be used as a memory device, a pass gate, a transmission gate, or a multiplexer, among other things.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Agate Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Louis Charles Kordus, II, Colin Neal Murphy, Malcolm John Wing
  • Reconfigurable logic structures
    Patent number: 7755389
    Abstract: Reconfigurable electronic structures and circuits using programmable, non-volatile memory elements. The programmable, non-volatile memory elements may perform the functions of storage and/or a switch to produce components such as crossbars, multiplexers, look-up tables (LUTs) and other logic circuits used in programmable logic structures (e.g., (FPGAs)). The programmable, non-volatile memory elements comprise one or more structures based on Phase Change Memory, Programmable Metallization, Carbon Nano-Electromechanical (CNT-NEM), or Metal Nano-Electromechanical device technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Agate Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Colin Neal Murphy, Narbeh Derhacobian, Louis Charles Kordus, II, Antonietta Oliva, Vei-Han Chan, Thomas E. Stewart, Jr.
  • Phase-change memory (PCM) based universal content-addressable memory (CAM) configured as binary/ternary CAM
    Patent number: 7675765
    Abstract: Content-addressable memory (CAM) cells comprised of phase change material devices (PCMDs), including PCMD-based binary CAM cells (PCMD-based BCAM cells), PCMD-based ternary CAM cells (PCMD-based TCAM cells), and PCMD-based universal CAM cells (PCMD-based UCAM cells). The PCMDs of the various PCMD-based CAM cells are configured and programmed in a manner that allows a logic “0” or a logic “1” to be stored by the CAM cell. The logic value stored by a given PCMD-based CAM cell depends on the program states of the PCMDs. A program state of a PCMD is determined by whether the phase change material of the PCMD has been allowed to solidify to a crystalline, low-resistance state during a programming operation, or whether the phase change material of the PCMD is forced to solidify to an amorphous, high-resistance state during the programming operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Agate Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Narbeh Derharcobian, Colin Neal Murphy
  • RECONFIGURABLE LOGIC STRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20090134910
    Abstract: Reconfigurable electronic structures and circuits using programmable, non-volatile memory elements. The programmable, non-volatile memory elements may perform the functions of storage and/or a switch to produce components such as crossbars, multiplexers, look-up tables (LUTs) and other logic circuits used in programmable logic structures (e.g., (FPGAs)). The programmable, non-volatile memory elements comprise one or more structures based on Phase Change Memory, Programmable Metallization, Carbon Nano-Electromechanical (CNT-NEM), or Metal Nano-Electromechanical device technologies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventors: Colin Neal Murphy, Narbeh Derhacobian, Louis Charles Kordus, II, Antonietta Oliva, Vei-Han Chan, Thomas E. Stewart, JR.
  • Reconfigurable logic structures
    Patent number: 7511532
    Abstract: Reconfigurable electronic structures and circuits using programmable, non-volatile memory elements. The programmable, non-volatile memory elements may perform the functions of storage and/or a switch to produce components such as crossbars, multiplexers, look-up tables (LUTs) and other logic circuits used in programmable logic structures (e.g., (FPGAs)). The programmable, non-volatile memory elements comprise one or more structures based on Phase Change Memory, Programmable Metallization, Carbon Nano-Electromechanical (CNT-NEM), or Metal Nano-Electromechanical device technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Cswitch Corp.
    Inventors: Narbeh Derharcobian, Louis Charles Kordus, II, Colin Neal Murphy, Antonietta Oliva, Vei-Han Chan, Thomas Stewart, Jr.